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...home, Humphrey was making the noises of a political statesman. "We've got to learn how to live with other people if we're going to win as a party," he said of his fellow liberals. "It's no great service to the party to be stubborn and dogmatic in one's views." Then he adds: "The old New Dealer's sole idea was to 'get it done,' and the devil take the methods. Today, liberals are more concerned with protecting procedural rights and the use of proper constitutional methods...
...Paris to settle the details. There is evidence that Ho genuinely wanted agreement at this stage: Moscow was making its postwar play for French friendship, and Ho, with little more than guerrillas behind him, was a long way out on a limb. But the French became more and more stubborn, and Ho saw his conquest fading. Ho made the mistake of relying for support upon French Communists, which further stiffened the French negotiators. Meanwhile, in Indo-China, French-Viet Minh relations were disintegrating: lives were taken on both sides...
...paid for at 310 to $1. When Rhee balked at this, fishing boats stayed in port, buses ground to a halt, some 300 factories closed down for lack of fuel, and seven desperate Koreans, trying to tap a U.S. pipeline for gasoline, were killed in an explosion. Still stubborn old Syngman Rhee stood fast. A fortnight ago the U.S. Army began paying its 100,000 Korean employees and contractors in greenbacks, not at the 310-to-$1 rate...
Curiously, Paris' great achievements were accomplished not with high spirits and eloquent hopes but with stubborn demands, clouded suspicions, dubious cheers. More curiously still, the man who won most in the five days was the man who indifferently let EDC go to its death, and who did not hesitate to threaten the whole painfully contrived structure with last-minute disaster. Others had talked of "glorious visions" and wailed over the intransigence of the French Assembly. Pierre Mendès-France used that intransigence as a tool, and talked not of sentiments but of realities...
...March 4, 1941, the people of the United States will have at their head a most efficient executive department consisting of the following members . . . Vice President Clifford Case, with his negative view of facts, will serve as a check on the President. His good nature, however, and his stubborn hair will keep the Cabinet happy and harmonious...